1. “Roaring” 1920s Creating a shared culture

2. Red Scare

3. U.S. views Lenin & Communism as a threat Fears of “extreme” ideas gripping U.S.

4. Sacco & Vanzetti Two Italian immigrants arrested for murder Debate about evidence; were they convicted & executed because they were immigrants

5. 1920s Renewed isolationism & nativism

6. Impact of Women’s Suffrage Women did not vote in large numbers Women did not radically change political direction

7. Great Migration Approx ½ million African-Americans move North in the 1920s Why? Job opportunities in North & continued discrimination in South

8. Harlem Renaissance Golden age of African-American literature

9. The “Lost Generation” Name given to writers in post WWI who wanted less restrictions on writing/didn’t like direction U.S. was going

10. Presidents Warren Harding (scandals – teapot dome) Calvin Coolidge (V.P.) took over after Harding death in 1923, won election of 1924

11. “Jazz Age” Morals Dates take place in cars Flappers – Some young single women who drank, swore, flaunted old morals Rakes – Young men who sped, drank, flirted with the girls

12. Women Employers often fired pregnant white women Technology saved time cleaning the house

13. Advertisement for “girls”

14. 1920s fashion

15. Flapper

16. Fun at the beach

17. Ad for “Glamour surf”... A new, more stylish swimsuit for women

18. Male swimsuits were one piece

19. Family entertainment Radio (NBC buys radio stations across the country to create shared experience) Movies (Sound arrives in 1927) 1930 – 100 million movie tickets bought each week

20. Flagpole sitting

21. Ouch!

22. Dance Contests became so dangerous they had to be regulated

23. Girls always dig guys in the band

24. Dancing is the craze (Here are your great grandparents???)

25. 1920s “Beauty show/talent contest”

26. Charles Lindbergh

27. First man to fly solo across the Atlantic Probably most famous American of 1920s

28. Babe Ruth

29. Ty Cobb of Detroit next to Ruth

30. New Products/Brands A&P Grocery Stores Kleenex A&W Root Beer (1 st fast food chain) 1920 to 1929: autos went from 8 million to 23 million Victrolas (Music players)

31. A&P 1920s

32. Victrola

33. Today’s IPOD

34. 1920s desk fan

35. 1920s phone (Think you could fit this in your pocket or text???)

36. Henry Ford

37. Henry Ford Impact 1914: Introduced 5 dollar work day (more $ for workers to buy cars) Perfected assembly line: Identical cars Strongly anti-union

38. Early Ford

39. Early Ford Assembly Line

40. William Clay Ford, Henry’s grandson, buys the Lions in 1964

41. Morality Prohibition exists 1922: movie industry starts to censor itself Dance floor: Over 300 laws exist in 1929 to stop lewd dancing

43. KKK reaches the peak of its political party in the 1920s

44. Teacher John Scopes

45. 1925 Scopes “Monkey Trial” Teacher John T. Scopes arrested in Tennessee for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution Fined 100$, but eventually fine dismissed

46. Political cartoon 1925 Scopes Trial